Baldacci, Collins, Michaud at UMaine Event Friday
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — Gov. John Baldacci, Sen. Susan Collins and Rep. Michael Michaud will all be at the University of Maine Friday, Feb. 20 for a news event related to UMaine research and technology commercialization efforts.
The event begins at 10:30 a.m. at UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center. Those elected officials will make brief remarks, as will UMaine President Robert Kennedy, University of Maine System Chancellor Richard Pattenaude, Center Director Habib Dagher and representatives of two business partners working with AEWC scientists and engineers to commercialize technology developed in the lab.
The Friday event will focus on three announcements:
– Dedication of the “Bridge in a Backpack,” recently completed through a UMaine/State of Maine project in Pittsfield. Dagher and others will demonstrate, in a laboratory setting, how this unique construction technology works
– Announcement of a new company being developed to commercialize the composite bridge arch technology exemplified by the Pittsfield project
– Announcement of workforce expansion at another Maine company that has commercialized UMaine technology, in this case composite pilings and composite beam technology for bridge girders